World Spider Catalog

Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869

Family | ACCEPTED

N.B.: for the year of description (1869 vs. 1870) see Sherwood et al., 2021: 396, Breitling, 2021b published a different opinion; Raven, 1994: 333 considered the Trichopelmatinae (genera Trichopelma and Psalistops) to belong to the Theraphosidae rather than to Barychelidae, but has not provided a phylogenetic argument for this change; Trichopelma was finally transferred to the Theraphosidae (Guadanucci, 2014: 514) as well as Psalistops (Mori & Bertani, 2020: 37), so in fact Trichopelmatinae is now transferred to Theraphosidae; the monophyly of Theraphosidae and of the most recognized theraphosid subfamilies was confirmed by Lüddecke et al., 2018 and by Foley et al., 2019.

Gen. Heterothele Karsch, 1879 urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:00235

Transferred to other genera:

Heterothele caudicula (Simon, 1886) -- see Thalerommata

Nomen dubium:

Heterothele villosella Strand, 1907a: 552, Strand, 1907f: 206 (m, Tanzania) -- Nentwig et al., 2020: 26

Heterothele affinis Laurent, 1946 | | Congo, Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002096

Heterothele affinis Laurent, 1946: 296, f. 2 (Dmf) Original description

Heterothele affinis Smith, 1990c: 117, f. 706-716 (m)

Heterothele atropha Simon, 1907 | | Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002097

Heterothele atropha Simon, 1907d: 222 (Df) Original description

Heterothele darcheni (Benoit, 1966) | | Gabon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002099

Macrothele darcheni Benoit, 1966a: 87, f. 1-2 (Df) Original description

Heterothele darcheni Raven, 1983b: 557, f. 1-4, pl. II, f. 3, 5 (Tf from Macrothele)

Heterothele decemnotata (Simon, 1891) | | Congo urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002100

Solenothele decemnotata Simon, 1891d: 298 (Df) Original description

Heterothele decemnotata Simon, 1903a: 925

Heterothele gabonensis (Lucas, 1858) | | Gabon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002101

Mygale gabonensis Lucas, 1858: 382, pl. 13, f. 1 (Dm) Original description

Diplura longipalpis Karsch, 1879a: 364 (Df)

Heterothele gabonensis Pocock, 1900g: 846

Heterothele gabonensis Gerschman & Schiapelli, 1973b: 72, f. 8-13 (mf)

Heterothele gabonensis Smith, 1990c: 118, f. 717-720 (mf)

Heterothele gabonensis Schmidt, 1993d: 56, f. 24-25 (mf)

Heterothele gabonensis Schmidt, 2003l: 108, f. 38-39 (mf)

Heterothele honesta Karsch, 1879 | | Angola urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002102

Heterothele honesta Karsch, 1879i: 65 (Dmf) Original description

Heterothele hullwilliamsi Smith, 1990 | | Cameroon urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002103

Heterothele hullwilliamsoni Smith, 1990c: 119, f. 721-739 (Dm; N.B.: patronym for Vincent Hull-Williams) Original description

Heterothele ogbunikia Smith, 1990 | | Nigeria urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002104

Heterothele ogbunikia Smith, 1990c: 120, f. 740-757 (Df) Original description

Heterothele spinipes Pocock, 1897 | | Tanzania urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002105

Heterothele spinipes Pocock, 1897b: 737, pl. 41, f. 6 (Dm) Original description

Heterothele spinipes Smith, 1987d: 86, f. 53h (m)

Heterothele spinipes Smith, 1990c: 121, f. 758-777 (m)